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Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Li, M., Ridgwell, A., Hakim, G. J., Poulsen, C. J., Whiteford, R. D. M., Rae, J. W. B., Kump, L. R. (2022). Spatial patterns of climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2205326119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205326119
Zhu, J., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Garcia, R., Brady, E. C., Mills, M., Kinnison, D., & Lamarque, J.-F. (2022). Small Impact of Stratospheric Dynamics and Chemistry on the Surface Temperature of the Last Glacial Maximum in CESM2(WACCM6ma). Geophysical Research Letters, 49(20), e2022GL099875. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099875 [DATA ON ESGF]
Zhu, J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Brady, E., Poulsen, C.J., Shaw, J.K., Kay, J.E. (2022). LGM paleoclimate constraints inform cloud parameterizations and equilibrium climate sensitivity in CESM2. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,14(4), e2021MS002776. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002776 [DATA ON ESGF]
Thompson, A. J., Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., Tierney, J. E., Skinner, C. B. (2022). Northern Hemisphere vegetation change drives a Holocene thermal maximum. Science Advances, 8(15), eabj6535. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj6535
Osman, M. B., Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Tardif, R., Hakim, G. J., King, J., & Poulsen, C. J. Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 599(7884), 239–244. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03984-4 [NEWS RELEASE]
Zhu, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2021). Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate forcing and ocean dynamical feedback and their implications for estimating climate sensitivity. Clim. Past, 17(1), 253–267. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-253-2021
Zhu, J., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E. C., Poulsen, C. J., Tierney, J. E., Lofverstrom M., DiNezio, P. (2021). Assessment of equilibrium climate sensitivity of the Community Earth System Model version 2 through simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091220. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091220 [NEWS RELEASE]
Zhu, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2020). On the Increase of Climate Sensitivity and Cloud Feedback With Warming in the Community Atmosphere Models. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(18), e2020GL089143. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089143
Tierney, J. E., Poulsen, C. J., Montañez, I. P., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Ford, H. L., Hönisch, B., Inglis, G. N., Petersen, S. V, Sagoo, N., Tabor, C. R., Thirumalai, K., Zhu, J., Burls, N. J., Foster, G. L., Goddéris, Y., Huber, B. T., Ivany, L. C., Kirtland Turner, S., … Zhang, Y. G. (2020). Past climates inform our future. Science, 370(6517), eaay3701. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3701 [NEWS RELEASE]
Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., King, J., Malevich, S. B., Hakim, G. J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2020). Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited. Nature, 584(7822), 569–573. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2617-x [FREE ACCESS] [NEWS RELEASE]
Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., Otto-Bliesner, B. L. (2020) High climate sensitivity in CMIP6 model not supported by paleoclimate. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0764-6 [FREE ACCESS] [NEWS RELEASE]
Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Liu, Z., Brady, E. C., Noone, D. C. (2020). Simulation of early Eocene water isotopes using an Earth system model and its implication for past climate reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 537, 116164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116164 [DATA]
Zhu, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2019). Quantifying the cloud particle-size feedback in an Earth system model. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10910–10917. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083829 [DATA]
Zhu, J., Poulsen, C. J., & Tierney, J. E. (2019). Simulation of Eocene extreme warmth and high climate sensitivity through cloud feedbacks. Science Advances, 5(9), eaax1874. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax1874 [DATA] [NEWS RELEASE]
Brady, E., Stevenson, S., Bailey, D., Liu, Z., Noone, D., Nusbaumer, J., … Zhu, J. (2019). The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 2547–2566. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001663 [DATA]
Thibodeau, B., Not, C., Zhu, J., Schmittner, A., Noone, D., Tabor, C., . . . Liu, Z. (2018). Last century warming over the Canadian Atlantic shelves linked to weak Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(22), 12376–12385. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080083
Lu, Z., Liu, Z., Zhu, J., & Cobb, K. M. (2018). A Review of Paleo El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Atmosphere, 9(4), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9040130
Zhu, J., Liu, Z., Brady, E. C., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Marcott, S. A., Zhang, J., . . . Noone, D. (2017). Investigating the direct meltwater effect in terrestrial oxygen-isotope paleoclimate records using an isotope-enabled Earth system model. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(24), 1250–12510. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076253
Zhu, J., Liu, Z., Brady, E., Otto-Bliesner, B., Zhang, J., Noone, D., . . .Tabor, C. (2017). Reduced ENSO variability at the LGM revealed by an isotope-enabled Earth system model. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(13), 6984–6992. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073406
Liu, W., Xie, S.-P., Liu, Z., & Zhu, J. (2017). Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in warming climate. Science Advances, 3(1), e1601666. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601666 [NEWS RELEASE]
Zhu, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, J., & Liu, W. (2015). AMOC response to global warming: dependence on the background climate and response timescale. Climate Dynamics, 44(11), 3449–3468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2165-x
Zhu, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, X., Eisenman, I., & Liu, W. (2014). Linear weakening of the AMOC in response to receding glacial ice sheets in CCSM3. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(17), 6252–6258. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060891
Liu, Z., Zhu, J., Rosenthal, Y., Zhang, X., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Timmermann, A., . . .Timm, O.E. (2014). The Holocene temperature conundrum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(34), E3501–E3505. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1407229111 [NEWS RELEASE] [NEWS RELEASE in CHINESE]
